03
Oct
2024

SURVEY INVITE for black, brown and BAME ADHD women & AFAB non-binary ADHDers and for trans ADHD women in the UK

This is an invite for ADHD women and non-binary AFAB ADHDers in the UK to participate in the survey (phase 3, 2024) of the research project ‘ADHD Women: Resisting a Neuronormative World‘.

Optional participation in Phase 4: one chat with the researcher (Dr Dyi Huijg). This conversation will be audio recorded. (More information here.)

The goal of the project is to contribute intersectional, critical and ADHD-affirmative knowledge about how we understand ADHD women’s and non-binary AFAB ADHDers’ lives.

This sociological project centres ADHD women’s and non-binary AFAB ADHDers’ own voices and perspectives. I am the researcher (Dr Dyi Huijg), but I am also an ADHD woman myself!

ADHD women and non-binary AFAB ADHDers living in the United Kingdom, who are eligible, are invited to participate in the project ‘ADHD Women: Resisting a Neuronormative World’.

I am currently only looking for…

  • black, brown and/or BAME ADHD women and AFAB non-binary ADHDers
  • trans ADHD women

Eligibility: You are an ADHD woman or non-binary AFAB ADHDer. You are 18+ and live in the United Kingdom. And you received a diagnosis of adult ADHD and/or you currently receive ADHD medication in line with NICE guidelines.

To give enough time to participate, I have extended the deadline of the survey till 15 December 2024. And the last recorded conversation will be held on 22 December 2024.

To go to the survey….

Posted by Dyi
26
Apr
2024

Research project: Co-Constructing ADHD Pedagogy

Recently I started with an international, interdisciplinary and generally fabulous team the research project ‘Co-Constructing ADHD Pedagogy’. With a small section of the ADHD reading group (i.e. the research team) we are reflecting together on our participation in and facilitation of the reading group. We are all ADHDers.

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Posted by Dyi in ADHD Pedagogy, ADHD Women, Critical ADHD Studies, Intersectionality, Neurodiversity, Reading Groups, Relaxed Pedagogy (RelaxPed)
26
Apr
2024

Update special issue ‘Critical and Intersectional ADHD Thought: ADHDers Think Back’ (CJDS)

This is a brief announcement that a significant number of abstracts have been accepted for the special issue ‘Critical and Intersectional ADHD Thought: ADHDers Think Back’, to be published in the open access (and thus freely accessible) online journal Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (CJDS). The special issue is organised by Dr Eric Olund and yours truly (Dr Dyi Huijg). A first round of abstracts was accepted in 2022, then we invited additional abstracts in 2024 (recently). Unfortunately, due to circumstances we had to depart from the workshops that we planned initially. But still: only ADHDers contribute. The abstracts are very interdisciplinary – including a few artistic/creative contributions. And they both (1) push back against the medical/individual model of ADHD and (2) push forward the critical and intersectional thinking about ADHDness. We are very excited and really look forward to writing our own articles and reading all the papers of the other contributors. As the field of Critical and Intersectional ADHD Thought is emerging, we expect that there will be a significant time in between the submission of articles to the CJDS and the reviewing and rerturn of articles as, this being an emerging field, there are no ‘experts’ as of yet. As such, it will take possibly more time than publishing already takes before the individual articles and the special issue will be up. While not in workshop-format, from the abstracts we have been able to propose a number of symposia (pre-organised panels around a specific theme) for the Leeds Disability Studies Conference 2024, for those who are up for it. So that is something to look forward to in the interim :). I will keep you updated about the progress!

Find here the 2024 Call for (additional) Papers for the special issue ‘Critical and Intersectional ADHD Thought: ADHDers Think Back’, so that you have an idea what to expect from the special issue.

Posted by Dyi in Critical ADHD Studies, Intersectionality
23
May
2022

Call for Abstracts

Deadline extended to 28 Oct >> Call for Abstracts: for the WORKSHOP (and Special Issue) : ‘Critical and Intersectional ADHD Thought: ADHDers Think Back’

Posted by Dyi
17
Jan
2022

The survey is live!

Th survey (phase 1) of the the intersectional and sociological research project ‘ADHD Women: Resisting a Neuronormative World’ is live now (it will stay online 17 Jan – 14 Oct 2022).

Check the links to learn more:

If you want to go to the survey immediately, click here: https://roehamptonuniversity.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/adhd-women-survey-phase-1

Posted by Dyi in ADHD Women
14
Nov
2021

What are ‘neuronormativity’ and ‘neurodiversity’?

The way I use ‘neurodiversity’ in the project ADHD Women: Resisting Neuronormativity is as…

“a(n analytical) social category that refers to, on the one hand, ‘neurodivergent’ people – e.g. people with Tourettes, ADHDers, autistics – and, on the other hand, ‘neurotypical’ people. To emphasise, the ‘neuro’ here refers to a social categorical ‘neuro-difference’, which neither alludes to an affirmation of a biomedical qualification, nor to a neutral social difference” (Huijg, 2020, pp.214-215; emphases not in original).

Neuronormativity, to simplify for now, refers to

barriers, norms, values, ideas etc. generated by the hegemony of ‘neurotypicality’ and ‘neuro-ableism’.

Mind, neither neurodiversity, neuronormativity and neuro-ableism, nor neurodiversity studies suffice. The project focusses intersectionally on neuronormativity in the form of anti-ADHD ableism and anti-ADHD injustices and inequalities.

I’ll write more about my approach to ‘neuronormativity’ and ‘neurodiversity’ in the future.

Reference:

Huijg, D.D. (2020). “Neuronormativity in theorising agency: An argument for a critical neurodiversity approach.” In: Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Nick Chown & Anna Stenning (Eds), Neurodiversity studies: A new critical paradigm (pp.213-217): Routledge. [Invited book chapter] [Open access version]

Posted by Dyi in ADHD Women, Neurodiversity, Neurodiversity & Neuronormativity
09
Nov
2021

ADHD Whiteness: An Exploration of the (Absent) Role of Race in Adult ADHD Research

SUMMARY: This is the blog post for the flipped webinar Intersectional Approaches to Disability and Race, which was held on 9 July 2021. This blog post explores how the field of ADHD research is grounded in majority white research populations or ignores race altogether; arguably, it produces white knowledge about (adult) ADHD. UK Government data suggests raced and gendered ADHD disparities, but argues that these do not exist. Critical race and feminist questions emerge about ADHD and ADHD lives, experiences and perspectives, but remain unanswered. Medical research is not sufficient. We need a field of Critical ADHD Studies, which is ADHD-affirmative, intersectional, and produced by ADHDers themselves.

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Posted by Dyi in ADHD Women, Critical ADHD Studies

About: Dr Dyi Huijg is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Roehampton. Her research focusses on ADHD women and intersectional injustice, intersectional agency and more. Continue reading ....

Dr Dyi Dieuwertje Huijg